ubuntu-us-ohio team mailing list archive

[Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey All! Happy weekend!


So, our ReLoCo ( REALLY Local Community ) leads are all in place and
kick'en some serious ass!
Here are some intros on some of them, in no particular order

John ( tnseditor )

I found Ubuntu after looking through (and trying) several
distributions in about November 2005. I continued to use Ubuntu on and
off until December 2006. In January 2007 I installed Ubuntu 7.04
Feisty Fawn (Herd 2) and since then use Ubuntu full-time. I am
currently using Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala).  In addition to computers
and The News Source, a newsletter I started in 2001, I also garden,
bike ride, and lots of other things. I am also involved with our
church's youth and youth leadership team.  I currently attend Rhodes
State College and will switch to Rhodes and OSU soon for middle
childhood education.

Brian Freytag ( MaskedDriver )

Brian "MaskedDriver" Freytag is a born and raised Buckeye. He graduated
from *THE* Ohio State University in 2009 with a B.S. in Agribusiness and
Applied Economics and currently works as a Web Developer for the College
of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences at OSU. Brian has been
an Ubuntu user since 2007, using it for desktop as well as server
processes.

Joe Begnoche ( jwb1275 )

I moved to Ohio in 2007. I grew up in upstate New York. Did my
undergrad at SUNY Binghamton in Electrical Engineering. I graduated
from Penn State in 2005 with a MS in EE focused in Remote Sensing and
Lidar Systems. Now I work in Akron and I moved to Copley in 2008. I
have toyed around with Linux since 2002, but I only got serious in
2008 when I installed Ubuntu 8.04 and I have been using Ubuntu ever
since.

Jason Chandler ( canthus13 )

I'm Jason, a technical support specialist for a local ISP in Toledo,
OH.  I spend a lot of my spare time on IRC in #ubuntu,
#ubuntu-offtopic, #ubuntu-us-oh, #ubuntu-beginners, and
#ubuntu-beginners-help.  I'm (slowly) working towards ubuntu
membership, and hope to have it sometime in the next five years or so.


Paul Tagliamonte ( paultag )

I'm Paul, and I grew up in Boston, MA. I moved to Ohio to study at
Uni. I love working on code, hacking the lowest level stuff I can
find. I enjoy working on long-term projects, and have used Ubuntu
since 2007, Linux since 2003. I'm an Ubuntu Member, contributing every
day to the Ubuntu Beginners Team. I am in more IRC channels then would
be kosher to post ( I hit the max without batting an eye ). I'm now
the Ohio Team Contact, and all that jazz.

WELCOME guys!!!!! Awesome to have you onboard! ( Except me, that would
be silly for me to thank myself :P )

====  Now, for the REAL news ;) ====

* Ubuntu Hour Columbus was a HUGE success. Great turnout, awesome
times, and really done right. Congrats to MaskedDriver, that is the
first Non-Cleveland Ubuntu Hour to happen!
* Ubuntu Hour Cleveland coming up Friday
* Ubuntu Hour Columbus coming up Wednesday

New IRC members!!!
Welcome to jeffschuler, cstudent, jshriver, tingaling -- I know you
will find a home in IRC! Keep on keep'en on :)

==== Related plug: =====
#ubuntu-us-oh on irc.freenode.net for all of you still reading this
but not active over IRC! We're not creepy, just socially awkward, I
swear!

Bis Dann!
- Paul